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Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United States offers a thematic analysis of interest groups and lobbying in American politics over the course of American political history. It explores how interest groups have organized and articulated their support for numerous issues, and how they have they grown – both in numbers and range of activities – to become an integral part of the U.S. political system. Beginning with the foundations of interest groups during the late 19th-century Gilded Age, to the contemporary explosive growth of lobbying, Political Action Committees, and new forms of interest group cyberpolitics, readers are provided with multiple approaches to understanding the complex and changing interest advocacy sphere. This authoritative work will find an audience not only with students and scholars, but also with policy advocates.
Economic Models of Interest Groups and Lobbying
Economic Models of Interest Groups and Lobbying
The well-established ties that bind economic models to the study of groups reach back to the earliest days of social science. In fact, economists were fascinated by groups long before most political scientists were. Arthur Bentley, often thought of as the first group scholar, considered himself an economist and believed that an understanding of groups would enhance ...
